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HPE, IBM and Lenovo each lost their market-share footing in the server box shifting world at the end of 2016, according to Gartner and IDC. Server sales revenues also dropped in the final three months of the year. Gartner says worldwide server revenues declined 1.9 per cent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $14.84bn, and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    But Meg got her bonus, so everything is fine, nothing to see here.

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  2. Charlie Clark Silver badge

    Only Dell and Huawei exhibited growth for the quarter

    Coincidentally neither company has to produce public accounts.

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      Actually, since acquiring VMware, Dell Technologies does have to produce public financial records... So your insinuations are wrong.

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  3. Quewwp

    Dear Gartner and IDC, Please expand the 'others' category, especially when it is the largest number!

    Also, look into, and count, the ODM and in-house server activities. The bigger picture would likely show sales shifting from some big names to AWS and similar outsourcing, not just to other server vendors.

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  4. John.laban

    Does the Data breakout OCP gear which an IDC intelligence report put at 50% by 2020

    http://www.silicon.co.nz/open_compute.html

    OCP open source vanity free servers are also being adopted by the world's Telcos for their new infrastructures and I wonder if this is factored into the data?

    https://youtu.be/1KrUs1hCPes

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